Palin down on selfies, up on S.A.’s ‘boardwalk’

Sarah Palin soon will be seen in a new television series exploring America’s great outdoors.

To promote it, the former Alaska governor met with TV critics Friday morning — and even made reference to San Antonio’s scenic, well, “boardwalk.”

All glammed up in big hair, a sparkly black cardigan and sky-high red, white and blue heels, the former vice presidential candidate looked like anything but an outdoorsy woman.

That’s her latest TV role, however, as she excitedly explained to writers at a breakfast during the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour. She’ll host the new “Amazing America with Sarah Palin” on Sportsman Channel, which is available on S.A.’s Time Warner Cable (Channel 409) and other local cable carriers starting April 3.

The show is an anthology of stories that explore people, places and pastimes — fishing, hunting, rafting, snow sports — connected to America’s love of adventure and the wild outdoors.

Palin certainly looked happy about her new gig, and voiced a special hope that, although the channel skews male, young women, too, would be inspired by her program.

“I think this world would be better off having more young women holding a fish in a picture than holding their camera in front of a bathroom mirror, taking a selfie,” she said.

She also made us laugh. “You know how much I love critics and the media,” she said. “So a room full of television critics, I can’t beat this combination for pleasure.”

Palin, who most recently made headlines with her defense of Phil Robertson after the “Duck Dynasty” star’s infamous anti-gay remarks, was eager to talk to critics who followed her around the room — as long as they stuck to the subject at hand. She amiably brushed a political query.

She even invited us all to her home state. “I want you to come up there,” she said. “That is the way that you can connect. So much of Alaska is what America used to be with a pioneering spirit.”

There will be “moose chili in the crock pot” for anyone who makes the journey, she added.

As she moved about the tables, shaking hands with various critics, I asked her if she’ll bring the show to San Antonio or Texas for a segment.

“We love our little sister state of Texas,” she said. “Of course, we’ll go bopping there and hopefully do a couple of things.

What about San Antonio?

“San Antonio is great,” Palin added. “We’ll do something on the boardwalk, OK?”